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The global law firm Jones Day announced today that the Firm has opened an office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Like all Jones Day offices, the Firm's Minneapolis Office will be fully integrated with all other offices and practices of the Firm, providing clients with access to the highest quality legal advice across the nation and the globe. Minneapolis is...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (June 13, 2016) – Shook, Hardy & Bacon announced today that its partners elected Madeleine McDonough to a five-year term as chair. Shook is nationally recognized as a preeminent firm for complex litigation, particularly in science, medicine and technology; McDonough, a former clinical pharmacist, is widely known in the legal...

McGuireWoods is among a handful of law firms named to BTI’s Most Recommended Law Firms list — a rare and prestigious distinction based on unprompted responses from top corporate counsel willing to bet their reputations when recommending specific firms to their peers.

Pro Bono Institute (PBI) today announced the members of its Esther F. Lardent Fund for Innovation in Pro Bono National Leadership Committee. The committee consists of the following prominent leaders in the legal community.
Hilarie Bass, Co-President, Greenberg Traurig
Ivan Fong, Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel, 3M Company
Ken...

Clifford Chance's Ari Kahn has been chosen by the New York State Bar Association as its 2016 Outstanding Lawyer of the Year. The award is presented annually by the Bar Association's Law Youth & Citizenship Committee (LYC) to a lawyer that has made a significant commitment to serving students in a volunteer capacity.

Rosen Livingston & Cholst LLP, a full-service New York law firm known primarily for its boutique real estate practice and niche specialty representing the boards and management companies of cooperatives, condominiums and home owners' associations (HOAs), today combined operations with Anderson Kill P.C., a national law firm headquartered in New York...

Art Chong has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a special advisor to the firm. Chong is a seasoned in-house attorney with more than 30 years of experience in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, finance, securities law, intellectual property and litigation. He has been the general counsel of two Fortune 500 companies and...

Fish & Richardson today announced that 37 of its attorneys have been recognized as “IP Stars” by Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) magazine. The “IP Stars” list highlights the country's leading intellectual property attorneys and is based on recommendations by peers and clients.
The 37 Fish principals...

Rosen Livingston & Cholst LLP, a full-service New York law firm known primarily for its boutique real estate practice and niche specialty representing the boards and management companies of cooperatives, condominiums and home owners' associations (HOAs), today combined operations with Anderson Kill P.C., a national law firm headquartered in New York...

McNees' Harrisburg office welcomes Patent Agent, Danny Kim, to the firm’s Intellectual Property and Patent practice groups.
Prior to joining McNees, Danny worked for the United State Patent and Trademark Office as a Patent Examiner.
Danny received a Master of Science in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Institute of...

John F. O’Brien III, an accomplished litigator with 10 years of experience representing food and beverage companies in class action and product liability matters, has joined McGuireWoods in the firm’s Atlanta office.

Seong Hwan Kim and Rebecca Edelson have joined the Century City office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as partners in the firm's Intellectual Property practice groups. Kim and Edelson join from Steptoe & Johnson, where Kim was head of the firm’s Korea Commercial Litigation practice, co-head of the Korea practice group, and...

Brian C. Riopelle, an acclaimed McGuireWoods litigator and chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation and Patents Department, is featured on The National Law Journal’s list of 2016 Intellectual Property Trailblazers. The publication recognizes top lawyers who influence intellectual property law through leadership or innovative legal...

Chambers and Partners has recognized McGuireWoods lawyers 89 times and firm practice areas 27 times in its 2016 guide, “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” the widely read and respected guide to leading law firms.

Courtroom experience is vital to a young lawyer’s career. However, the number of “stand-up” courtroom opportunities is decreasing as fewer cases go to trial. This, combined with law firm practices that incentivize senior attorneys to handle courtroom arguments and clients’ preferences to have more senior lawyers handle argument and...

McNees welcomes five law students to its 10-week summer associate program designed to give participants an opportunity to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to the real world.
Participating in the program is:

iDiscovery Solutions, Inc. (iDS), an award-winning legal technology
and information governance (IG) expert services firm, is proud to announce its sponsorship of several
upcoming Women’s Bar Association of DC (WBA) events in 2016-17, including their 2016 Annual Dinner
on May 25. At the WBA’s sold-out gala event, to be held at The National...

iDiscovery Solutions, Inc. (iDS), an award-winning legal technology and information governance (IG) expert services firm, is proud to announce its sponsorship of several upcoming Women’s Bar Association of DC (WBA) events in 2016-17, including their 2016 Annual Dinner on May 25. At the WBA’s sold-out gala event, to be held at The National...